Ticker: It's a fact that pizza and cars are a bad combo

11:20 AM,
Sep. 25, 2013

Written by

Brian Manzullo
Detroit Free Press Sports Writer

The Detroit Lions' receiver, distracted by pizza falling off his front seat, crashed his 2009 GMC Yukon SUV into a median on westbound I-696 and broke both bones in his forearm.

It's important to note he wasn't eating the pizza, as far as we know. According to Insure.com, which surveyed 1,500 licensed drivers ages 25 and older, pizza ranks among the worst foods to eat while driving a car, right with soup, spaghetti, ribs, salads, nachos, tacos, ice cream cones and burritos (memo to Ron Burgundy). ...